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Victory
03:21
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Coming around the final turn
Headed down the home stretch
These last three laps simply blurred vision
Behind me
The moment of truth
The vision of years past
The moment in time that represents
Everything lived for is now
My face is lined with tears of joy
As my chest breaks the tape
Another obstacle conquered
Another agenda promptly met
So I lift my head and scream to the sky
My arms held high in victory
Symbol of beginning and of end
I look to see what's next for me
What will I do?
What will I see?
I look again
What's next for me?
Brimming with excitement and pride
Time stills as I live the moment
I conquered the final turn
I paced the home stretch
That last ecstatic mile
Simply a blurred vision of the past
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Here we are on the threshold of the future
Holding tightly each other’s hands
Eyes swollen from long nights spent talking
Mentally wandering
Searching
Groping for the doorknob in the dark
Looking for the answer
Desperately searching
Lying on my back gazing up at the sky
Shaping the clouds to fit my requirements
Not shapes that they are but shapes that I want them to be
Wanting to fly high into the sky
Only to have my wings melt
From the heat of the midday sun
And I fall crashing
Suddenly
Violently
To the ground and I pick myself up
And prepare to fly again
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Driven
04:26
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It was a straight shot down I-75
14 long hours of driving
And plenty of alone time
Roaring through the night
Streetlamps marking towns in the darkness
Winding up and down the mountains
Wandering through the fields of grain
Daydreaming past the herds of cattle
Struggling through the pouring rain
I drive exhausted and alone
Across the miles toward the sunny bay
Just for the glimmer of hope that someday
I’ll see you again
Can’t you see that I’m not gonna die
Not gonna die
Not gonna die
Asleep at the wheel is no way to drive
When you’re doing 90 down I-75
It was a long day at work
Worked the 7-5
Had class in the evening
But I’m not gonna die (no way)
No Doze and Chocolate and coffee and Mountain Dew and McDonalds
and Slim Jims and Steak-N-Shake and Megadeth to get me by
Can’t you see that I’m not gonna die
Not gonna die
Not gonna die
Asleep at the wheel is no way to drive
When you’re doing 90 down I-75
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Who Is To Say?
05:08
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Strange days are invading my space
controlling my thoughts and spinning my mind
the sunrise blazing through my window is getting hotter, hotter yet
frying our brains and soldering our fragmented thoughts into panoramic memory
When those memories come to pass
messages flash before my eyes
showing a gap of time and where did it go?
Where did it go?
Repressed to a dark corner of the mind or simply forgotten?
Who is to say, are you? are you? Stay away from me
You aren't to say, are you? are you? You are the lapse in my memory
Stranger days without a past and nothing to stack my future upon
Can you stack something on nothing or is there always a starting point from which to build?
Does my randomness blind you, haunt you, hate you, make you feel the fragmenting me?
Feel me, feel me, feel me, can the world feel me? Who is to say?
Who is to say, are you? are you? Stay away from me
You aren't to say, are you? are you? You are the one fragmenting the life in me
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Pirouette
00:31
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Headache
05:36
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Two halves made whole in time
The parts slammed with such force
that I'm not sure if the hinges are in place anymore
Replacing the pieces of my imploding life
Headache... the real danger lies in the uncovering.
Gotta pull it together
Two are here but only one can stay
Gotta keep it together
The pressure is building, building everyday
The stage was set right in front of me
Both sides staring me in the face
My mind was flooded with all my memories
Memories which now stood in front of me
But as the stage began to fade
I felt part of my life follow
I stared as so much of me passed on
Drifted on to the other side
Gotta pull it together
Two are here but only one can stay
Gotta keep it together
I feel half of me drifting, drifting, drifting away
Flying away
Passing away
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No More
04:08
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Shut up and listen for a change
You're always foaming at the mouth
Never paying attention to the world around you
Can't you see what's going on?
Your life's a blinded dreamworld
Open your eyes and shut your face and give your life a chance
Slave to that rush, think again...
That rush starts a spiral spinning down, ever spinning down
Too late? It's never too late, but refuse to commit yourself to turning it around,
And you'll keep spinning down, ever spinning down
Get out of my face with your tugging and your pathetic whining
I'm not going to hold your hand on the way down
You have to do this one alone
Crutches help to stand for a while
But to get back in the game
You have to do this one alone
And don't point the finger at me
It's far past the time for blame
It's time for action, yes it is,
and your freedom is the name of the game
So put away your vices
It's time for sacrifices
I won't be there anymore
Don't look to me for answers
Cause I won't be there anymore
No more
No more
No more!
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Test of Faith
04:37
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Fallen to my knees at the sight
the memory is still imprinted, burned into my eyes
I only stared forward, then into my hands,
then up at the sky and my mind went blank
Those around said I screamed but I cannot remember
I only see the image branded on my mind
An image that will never fade
Still I look above
Father, where is your mercy?
Have you left us, Father?
Can you see what's going on?
Must life be a constant test of faith?
I remember thinking that there must be no god
as the scene unraveled in front of me
the ground shook and the walls came tumbling down
and the bodies, oh the bodies, strewn about like litter from some morbid baseball game
The sirens and screams still somehow sound like they're right in front of me
Pulling me from my knees to the side of the road
Where I laid, trying to wipe that dream away but it would not fade
Father, where is your mercy?
Have you left us, Father?
Can you see what's going on?
Must life be a constant test of faith?
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The Flood
05:36
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That February night must have lasted for years
The flood of tears matched that of the rain outside
So much pain, but what is the answer
The answer that I'm looking for is nowhere to be found
Finding my way through the maze
Blindly chasing you through the haze
Is this the future or just a phase
Or am I simply a head case?
Please stop the rain from falling
I can't seem to stop it anymore
The fight I once had has somehow
Turned it's back on me
I'll never feel the same way I did before
It keeps getting louder and softer
Louder and softer
The rain keeps on mouthing the rhymes
Rhyming in rhythm the rhymes with no end
The rhythm calls me back to you again
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Faded
05:17
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Never thought I'd see the day
You looked at me this way
Hurt disguised poorly behind indifference
and I'm left to sort the pieces of this bizarre friendship
Never thought it would get this far out of reach
At times I feel lost for words
No answers, no questions, only confusion
Wondering how something so different
Became something so distant....
Broken
Scarred
Faded
I remember when we used to sit side by side
Conversations long into the night about our lives
We leaned on each other when it was needed most
I don't remember when it became
Broken
Scarred
Faded
Was I that selfish?
When did our stone throwing shatter our glass houses?
When did the difficult become broken beyond repair?
Is there anything left to say?
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Taking Hold 2009
03:58
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Thrown his questions to the wind
Jimmy accepts his fate in blind faith
Forced in pursuit of destiny
Does it matter anymore?
His journey's descended upon different roads than originally forseen
Time has shed a varied light upon the outlook of his future
unable to change his fate or see beyond tomorrow
Acceptance of responsibility is the only answer
Finally taking hold of the flame
After what seemed like years of endless contemplation
Accepting the facts that face his life
As his journey finds him at a fork in the road
How could he have known it would come to this?
Standing emotionally naked, victorious
Staring down roads only interrupted by the horizon
Nervous energy tingling all around him
Jimmy distinctly remembers being reluctant to grab
The reins of his future, his destiny
But that time has long since passed, his future's now a journal
Empty paper waiting for the future to be inscribed
but already with a life and a meaning beyond rationalization
Jimmy no longer wants to run away
His challenges to be addressed with vigor and life
But there are still decisions to be made...
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Transformed, stronger and focused
A deadly combination
Look at me now
Do you see the vigor
Do you feel the vibe
I have returned.
Love me, hate me, feel me, take me
To the place Ive longed to go
Its been so long that Ive been gone
And I cant stay away anymore.
I have returned.
Out of the fog
Out of the haze
A beacon in the distance
Has been calling my name
Beckoning me to return
Back to the front
Did you hear me say
I have returned.
Take notice
I have been gone too long
And the embers of my past
Have found their glow again
My frustration over wasted years
And aggravation over pointless fears
Has found its voice again
And you will hear it over and over and over again
I have returned.
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I stood there in the waiting room
Tears rolling down my face
The doctors words fading into silence
As I stood there in a daze
With my head in my hands
I again replayed the day
We shouldn't have been there
We should've been miles away
The chamber was loaded and the wheel spun round
Fate had decided that this is how it would go down
I never even saw her
I never even had a chance
To ease up on the trigger or take a second glance
I'm the Gun
Focused and deadly
I had the target in my sights
I drew in my breath
Ready to bring the hammer down
I closed my eyes as I let it fly
But there was such a strange sound
The sound I heard cannot be described in words in words
I'm the Gun
The gun was fired and the damage done
Ill have to live with knowing I'm the one
I never even saw her
I never even had a chance
To ease up on the trigger or take a second glance
I'm the Gun
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14. |
Saturday Morning
02:02
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